Information about our use of cookies.
Our website at barinthusbio.com (“our site”) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and also allows us to improve the site. By continuing to browse our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A “cookie” is a small text file that is sent to your computer or device by a website and automatically saved on your computer or device by your web browser (e.g. “Internet Explorer”). Each cookie is unique to your web browser. Each time you request a page from our site, your web browser sends this cookie back to our site’s server.
We use the following cookies:
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you, and all information collected by them is anonymous.
- By using our site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your computer or device.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region, or your preferences for other customisable parts of our site).
- By using our site, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your computer or device.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| “_gat” | Google Analytics |
This cookie is used to allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This cookie enables us to: Estimate our audience size and usage pattern. |
| “_ga” | Secondary Google Analytics Cookie |
This cookie is also used to allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. This cookie enables us to: Estimate our audience size and usage pattern. |
| PHPSESSID | PHP cookie | This cookie is used to track the PHP session |
| WordPress_test_cookie | Test cookie | This cookie is used to test if other cookies are enabled correctly. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies to enable the third parties to track your response to their adverts and/or identify you on any other website that you visit which also contains their adverts.
If you wish, you can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie so you have the chance to accept it and you can also set your browser to refuse to receive or send all cookies. The website www.allaboutcookies.org (run by the Interactive Marketing Bureau) contains step-by-step guidance on how cookies can be switched off by users. However, please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.